{"quotes":[{"text":"It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheists","brainy","free-thinking","fundamentalism","harmony","inspirational","love-and-kindness","orthodoxy","peace","philosophy","rational-thinking","religion","religious-extremism","religious-harmony","religious","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","thinkers","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":8048,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","free-thinking","human-nature","humanity","ignorance","in-god-i-trust","in-god-we-trust","inspirational","neuropsychology","neuroscience","philosophy","philosophy","prejudice","prejudices","principia-humanitas","principles-of-humanism","rational-thinking","rationality","sage","sages","science","self-awareness","self-confidence","self-help","self-love","self-realization","social-norms","social-psychology","truth","truth","wise-sayings","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":19234,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinkers","free-thinking","free-thinking-abilities","free-thinking","life-philosophy","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","rational","rational-spirituality","rational-thought","rationality","religion","religious-beliefs","religious-extremism","religious-violence","scripture","wisdom","wisdom","wise"],"id":39734,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinkers","free-thinking","free-thinking-abilities","free-thinking","life-philosophy","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","rational","rational-spirituality","rational-thought","rationality","religion","religious-beliefs","religious-extremism","religious-violence","scripture","wisdom","wisdom","wise"],"id":39734,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["blasphemy","free-thinking","heresy","human-mind","human-nature","humanity","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-human-nature","rational-thinking","sin","social-psychology","wisdom"],"id":44688,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. Are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["free-mind","free-thinking","free-thinking-abilities","ildan-wise-sayings","murat-ildan","puppet","religion","religions","thinking","thinking","thoughts","traditions","turkish-literature"],"id":54338,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinking","guru-nanak","india","nanak","philosophy","philosophy","religion","sikh","sikhism","sikhs","words-of-wisdom-on-friendship"],"id":55358,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.","author":"Michelle Templet","tags":["free-thinking","philosophy","reason"],"id":107703,"author_id":"Michelle+Templet"},{"text":"Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","belief","belief-systems","free-thinking","humanity","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy-of-religion","philosophy-of-science","reasoning","science","science-and-religion","wisdom","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":108417,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"I have a little moral trouble with the term “mankind”, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term “humanity” over it, and the term “human” over “man”.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","earth","female-characters","female-empowerment","feminism","free-thinking","human-min","humanism","humanity","inspirational","male-thinking","man","man-and-woman","man-and-woman","mankind","motivational","philosophy","reasoning","sage","wisdom","women","women-and-men","women-s-inspirational","women-s-rights","women-s-strength","words-of-wisdom"],"id":110395,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}